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James Benham

James Benham

Male 1784 - 1869  (85 years)

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  • Name James Benham 
    Born 9 Aug 1784  Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1840  Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Census 1850  Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    as James Benham, farmer, head of household 
    Census 1860  Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    as James Benham, in the household of Joseph Bone 
    Buried Aug 1869  Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Address:
    Lebanon Cemetery 
    Died 25 Aug 1869  Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Cause: of consumption 
    History / Bio 1882  [8] 
    The History of Warren County, Ohio (Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co., 1882), p713 

    • Union Township
      James Benham was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania August 9, 1784, and died in Union Township, Warren County, Ohio at the age of eighty-five years and sixteen days. His father, Peter Benham, removed with his family to the present site of Newport, Ky., in the winter of 1793-94, where he stopped on a tract of land belonging to Capt. Robert Benham. The next year, Peter Benham returned to Pennsylvania on business and died there, leaving in Kentucky his widow and five children, James, John, Peter, and two daughters, afterward Mrs. Thompson Lamb and Mrs. Nathan Smith. The widow removed to lands near Turtle Creek, purchased with the proceeds of Peter's estate. She died in 1805, when her eldest son, James, was just twenty-one years old. At his mother's request, he promised her not to marry until his young sisters were grown up, and to keep them together. True to his promise, he remained single until 1818, when he married Miss Mary Robinson; in 1821, he married Miss Mary Russell, and in 1827 he married Mrs. Lydia Irwin. By his first two marriages he had no children; by his third wife, his children were James I., Mrs. Rebecca Snook, Mrs. Martha Stokes and Mrs. Lizzie Bone. James Benham was twice elected Justice of the Peace, but he never sought office. His long life was passed as a quiet farmer; in politics he was a Whig, and afterward a Republican; in religion he was for the last forty or fifty years of his life a Universalist. Gen. Durbin Ward, who was the intimate friend of James Benham wrote soon after his death: "The writer who knew him as the highest type of humanity--an honest man--and who loved him for nearly thirty years, mourns the loss of the wisest man he ever knew, and whose daily life he would be glad to be good and great enough to follow as an example."
    Military Officer in the Revolutionary War  [9] 
    Religion Universalist  [10] 
    Person ID I2449  TangledRoots
    Last Modified 3 Jul 2021 

    Father Peter Benham,   b. 12 Oct 1753, Monmouth County, New Jersey, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 27 Oct 1795, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Ellsworth,   b. Abt 1753,   d. 1805, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Family ID F1243  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Robertson,   d. Between 1818 and 1821 
    Married 26 Feb 1818  Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F1255  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Russell,   b. 1795,   d. 31 Aug 1825, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years) 
    Married 29 Dec 1824  Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F1256  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Lydia Moore,   b. Abt 13 Sep 1798,   d. 12 Oct 1847, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Married 20 Dec 1827  Butler County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15, 16] 
    Children 
     1. James Irwin Benham,   b. 19 Oct 1830, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Oct 1885, Easom, Texas, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
     2. Rebecca Ann Benham,   b. Abt 1832, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1905, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     3. Martha Benham,   b. 20 Feb 1835, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 May 1902, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)
     4. Elizabeth Benham,   b. 17 Mar 1839, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Aug 1878  (Age 39 years)
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F1257  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


  

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